His mouth was burning hot on mine, his eyes drilling into mine, his arm tucked around my waist, the muscles in his jaws jumping. "Do you...do you love me?"
Rain pelted down on our clothes, on our skin, wetting us and drenching us. I mustered the courage to look straight into those electrifying green eyes, swallowing so deeply and intensely that I hurt to breathe and to swallow, my mouth feeling as dry as concrete.
"Do you love me?" he repeated, his voice getting louder by every word, as he shook me hard, my teeth shuddering in my skull.
The only sound was rain, as I shivered in cold, and buried my head on his chest, his minty breath caressing my face, as I said in the lowest and the most sincere voice, peering at him with my mouth twitching into an unhidable (if there's even such a word, dude!) smile.
"Yes. Yes of course."
~ * ~
Chloe is a girl who can be described in one word: nerd. She's shorter than the average, has boring black curls, and is certainly unattractive. Or so she thinks. When she meets the ultimate funny, quirky new guy, Zachary Freshwater, her once-ordinary world is shaken up by adventures.
Zachary acts and talks like he has known her all her life, and even plans a grand revenge plan for her to be the It girl and retaliate on her possessive ex-boyfriends.
As she rises up to sit on the throne of the School Queen, her heart is torn- between her present gentleman boyfriend, Colton, and Zachary, the quirky, somehow odd and smart boy who knows how to fight as well as a gangster.
In the walls of Shaw High, a mysterious high school, Chloe has to learn one thing that can be the easiest and the most difficult: to know how to listen to her own heart.
how far would you go . . . for someone you love?
♔
Levi steps forward, placing himself between me and Jack. Like he's protecting me from him. But I don't need protecting, certainly not from Jack.
"Who do you think you are, dude?" Levi spits, getting in Jack's face. "Look, Scarlett was just helping me out with a proj-"
"I'm not your dude," Jack bites, and I want to tear my hair out of my head. This is going downhill very fast. Jack turns to me.
"Scar, we need to talk," he says lowly. Then loud enough for Levi to hear, "So can you please get this kid to leave."
"Hey, you don't get to come in here and start ordering her around," Levi says harshly. "You don't control her."
"And you think that you do?" Jack spits.
♔
When Scarlett moved off to college, she hoped to start anew and find her way in this world alone.
Two problems.
One: her older brother goes to the same college, and it seems like he's everywhere, keeping her from doing everything she hoped to do as a college freshman.
Two: her brother's devastatingly handsome best friend also seems hell-bent on ruining her college experience . . . but in a different way.
Their paths keep crossing, and Scarlett is reminded of the powerful attraction that they've both ignored for far too long.
Not to mention, a new face begins to occupy everyday Scarlett's thoughts. When Scarlett is paired with an allusive, darkly handsome stranger for a film project, her world begins to open in ways she never thought possible. But as his mystery unravels into dark secrets, she wonders if she's falling a bit too hard.
Before long, Scarlett is forced to realize that balancing the hearts of two boys at once just might result in the breaking of her own.